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Another two coats of paint and soon the '29 Lowboy will be ready for final assembly! It appears that my flash highlighted the door lines of the model. More Model A to come...

Spent some time polishing the Monaco today with NuFinish Scratch Doctor. The results were stupendious! The paint is so shiny that you could read the Scratch Doctor label! Hunter will return...

I went and added the headers to the engine and realized that the ignition wiring was going to interfer with the headers. I removed the wiring from the engine block, added the headers and then reinstalled the ignition wiring. I did have to redrill some of the spark plug holes and the rewiring with a pair of tweezers and a magnifier was a lot of fun...NOT! More Model A to come...

I just saw this and I must say, it is nice!!! Good job, John!

Please don't be crabby! Especially here! Thanks Bob! I appreciate your comments!

It is what it is! These kits are equipped as such and we have the means and ways of changing them to fit our needs. I do it often. Not everyone wants a flathead engine in their hot rod. Thanks Jim and James!

Thanks Craig and Trevor! Finding a V8 flathead should be fairly easy. The Revell '48 Ford Woody has one. The Revell '50 Ford Pickup and the '32 Ford Sedan has one. Scale might be an issue with some.

Thanks Steve! Gibbs getting his boat out of the basement should be a mystery, but that question was answered in season 19 episode 4.

Looks great Tony! Nice job!

The Story Lt. Det. Troy decides to assign a couple of detectives to watch Virden's condo in case he shows up. He is determined to catch Virden tonight at the latest. He also decides to assign a couple of detectives to watch Cannon's house in Brookline since Cannon could go out to meet Virden or Virden would stop over at Cannon's house. In the meantime, Forensics has been reviewing the tape and printing out additional pictures of the crime scene with Virden getting out of his car and shooting Shawn Whittaker. The Build I have removed the steering wheel and column to drill a small hole for a shifter that I found in my parts box. The hole is big enough for the shift arm and in the center of the dash near the steering wheel. McNally will return...

Thanks Jim and Carl! I was thinking about using mineral spirits. We shall see. I have built the '32 Roadster, the '32 3 and 5 Window coupes. I can see Revell reissuing these again and again since they are great kits! The '29 and '30 Model A's do offer some great mix and match possibilities, but be careful as some matches require some mods for good fitment.

I have painted my '77 Monaco with Tamiya TS-43 Racing Green. Another coat or two should darken the color some more. I also painted the interior bucket with Tamiya AS-15 Tan. Now to detail the dash and interior and paint up the radio. Hunter will return...

The Story Darvell rushes back to Homicide with pictures of the license plate from the mystery killer's car and the car belongs to Mr. Virden, Cannon's right hand man. Lt. Det. Troy calls the ADA for an arrest warrant for Virden and whne they do get the warrant, they drive out to Virden's condo to arrest him. Except, he wasn't there. They drive out to Brookline, MA to Cannon's house to see if he is there, but Virden hasn't been seen since lunch at Legal Seafood. When the cops leave Cannon's house, Cannon yells to find Viden NOW! The Build The interior is now complete, or so I thought. The laptop computer sits on top of the shifter and I have been thinking about creating a dash-mount shifter like the cop cars actually have. I have been slowly polishing the paint having finished the hood, roof and trunk lid. I still have to polish the sides. A mockup showed some resistance on the front, so I removed the fender mounts and sanded the fender lips with my Dremel and a sanding bit. McNally will return...

I took a piece of wide masking tape and masked off the grille so I could paint the grille surface flat black. When I removed the tape, I was left with bleed-through and tape residue on the chrome. Now to figure out how to remove the bleed-through and the tape residue. The seats have been painted. I sanded the body, but the side panels need to be repainted since they fell victim to my dropping my small bottle of paint thinner for brush cleaning. More Model A to come...

Thank you Lee and Chris!

Thank you Dominik and James!

Thank you Jeremy and Stephen!

Thank you Jeremy and Chris!

Thank you guys! The number one question will always be how Gibbs gets his boats out of the basement.

Good looking model, Dominik, but that is a 1967 Ford Mustang GT and not a Shelby GT350.

Getting close is all we can do. If Mike Finnegan decides to make a change to Blasphemi, since he is still racing the car, we may not know about the change or even see it. It might be a change that is out of camera range.

Thanks John! I found a partial can of Tamiya TS-53 Deep Metallic Blue that I once used on a Ford GT. It should be dark enough to match the Dupli-Color Stellar Blue Pearl that I originally used on the '29 Model A.

A mockup to check my work. This is looking great and I wished I thought of it earlier! I sanded the body and now to take it apart for a bath. The firewall will be primed and painted, but I don't know if it would be white or body colored. John took the original dash and I had a spare from the AMT '32 Ford Phaeton. Now to primer it, paint and detail it. More Model A to come...

Thanks David and Jim! I usually glue some or all of my wheels on and usually for rake or height. I have not done anything about the paint issue yet, but I do have some ideas. I had this vision of using the Coupe's inner structure and it just doesn't fit. So I took the Roadster's inner structure and placed inside the Roadster's body and, of course it fits better. I took my hobby knife and scored the interior panels and removed them and I liked the look a whole lot better. I am moving forward and using these side panels instead. More Model A to come...

Looking good, John!